I'm what the shrinks call a Dreamer; I find a field of study that I like and I focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else. Yes it makes me somewhat awkward in social settings (I don't always realize that other people aren't quite as interested in something that I find fascinating), but it hasn't stopped me from grabbing life by the horns and living it to its fullest. If anything, the fact that I analyze things to such a great extent has shown me just how fragile life truly is, so I am inclined to get the most out of every day that I am on this Earth.
Good luck and good health to you.
This Sandy Hook news coverage makes me really angry. I have one severely autistic grandchild and another who is thought to be Aspergers (different mothers). I can’t imagine either of them doing something like this. There must be thousands of people out there who could (or have) been designated Aspergers. 99.99% would never do anything as horrific as this.
On the other hand, untreated Paranoid Schizophrenics might. As I said earlier (either on this thread, or another) I have a Paranoid Schizophrenic man who works for me and is our most loyal and most dependable employee. He killed his mother about 27 years ago because of voices in his head that put him in fear of his own safety. Subsquently, he spent 13 years in the state mental hospital for the criminally insane. He’s worked for us about 6-7 years with no problem.
He is carefully managed by drugs and an army of social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and probation officers. His health insurance is through the state because of his pre-existing condition. He’s a wonderful employee and wonderful man (who spends most of his spare time volunteering through the church and through mental health organizations). He’s a smart and productive man with 2 engineering degrees, but his condition has NOTHING to do with Aspergers!
P.S. You sound like my grandson with the intense concentration on one, or two, subjects.